
Now, majority of people play a support role, and I'd wager over 90% build their Cleveland for full AA. Use your arcs to sit behind islands and spam over it at ships. Combine this with strong HE, and insane turret arcs, you can very easily kite ships chasing you and constantly 'tail-kick' when you somehow get forced into fighting a BB solo. On top of this, Cleveland has the smallest turning circle of the T6 CLs, and a fast rudder to boot. Cleveland has a very low citadel and 2nd best in class armoring, with Budyonny coming on top. No cruiser is ever going to compare to BB armoring until you get to T10, and that's mostly just bow armor. By cruiser standards she has high survivability.

Going to start off by rebuking this statement.

Use the Cleveland in a support role as she is very fragile. Also depends on your commander skill level and any signal flag added to your ship.

After the initial air attack you should be able to move off and join the battle.Īs for your defensive fire 5km range is about right to activate this. You could as the CV player is he or she would like AA support as your cruiser is the perfect one for this.
